Ask Jeeves buys major blog service http://www.netimperative.com/2005/02/08/ask_buys_bloglines/view
Last modified 08-02-2005 04:53 PM Ask Jeeves has bought blog aggregation service Bloglines for an undisclosed sum. As Netimperative predicted, Ask Jeeves bought Trustic Inc., which owns and operates the Bloglines service. Financial details of the sale were not disclosed. Bloglines monitors the Really Simple Syndication (RSS) "feeds" from blogs and aggregates the desired content into a personalised Web page for Blogline's users. "Search is one way to retrieve information on the Internet and this is another. This a very close cousin to search," said Jim Lanzone, Ask Jeeves' senior vice president of search properties. Ask Jeeves also bought into the Bloglines services for creating, publishing and searching blogs. Bloglines will have more resources to develop, said Mark Fletcher, Bloglines' founder and chief executive officer, who remains at Bloglines' helm. "Ask Jeeves will be committing resources to Bloglines to help us build out our service even more and accelerate our product roadmap," Fletcher said. Bloglines will operate independently from Ask Jeeves, but will integrate its services and technologies Bloglines will integrate its blog search capabilities into Ask Jeeves' Ask.com search engine. You are a subscribed member of the infowarrior list. Visit www.infowarrior.org for list information or to unsubscribe. This message may be redistributed freely in its entirety. Any and all copyrights appearing in list messages are maintained by their respective owners.
